"I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

John Woo

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“I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.”
“Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.”
“There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.”
“One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who could be - he was a love poet, he was a poet of the natural order and he was also a political poet.”
“Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.”
“Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.”

Source : Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.54, Heinemann
“I love writing family stories.”

Source : "‘The Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore: ‘Has race been in the news lately?’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2015.
“Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.”

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